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From: flaps@utcsri.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: easy question about intel 80186
Message-ID: <4697@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Apr-87 02:16:23 EDT
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Posted: Wed Apr 29 02:16:23 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 30-Apr-87 01:42:11 EDT
Reply-To: flaps@utcsri.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal)
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[ apologies in advance if this is the wrong newsgroup; I read several
articles here & it looked appropriate. ]

A local product uses networked workstations each of which runs on an
intel 80186 cpu.  Most workstations do not have disk drives; there is a
fileserver workstation.

From home I can telephone in to the fileserver only.  There is not
enough ram on it to do compiles (for example), but if other
workstations are powered up I can run processes on them.

The thing I cannot do is reboot them.  Some operations on these
workstations are irreversible except for rebooting and I currently must
refrain from doing them from home.  Also sometimes it is difficult to
kill tasks over the network.

SO, the question is:  what is the first thing an 80186 does when turned
on?  Does it jump to a certain location in memory, does it do a certain
interrupt, or what?  I would like to write a (very short) program to
duplicate this action.  I think that probably this will reboot the
machine, and I can run this from home on any workstation.


Please respond by e-mail as I don't read this newsgroup.

Thanks in advance!

-- 

Alan J Rosenthal

flaps@csri.toronto.edu, {seismo!utai or utzoo}!utcsri!flaps,
flaps@toronto on csnet, flaps at utorgpu on bitnet.

"Probably the best operating system in the world is the [operating system]
made for the PDP-11 by Bell Laboratories." - Ted Nelson, October 1977